Edible & ornamental
I like the comment by Eve Emshwiller in the interesting article http://whyfiles.org/2012/farming-native-american-style looking at how to learn from how the Native Americans had developed stable, sophisticated food-gathering systems: “There were […]
The ATW selfie is going viral worldwide…. ;) Send me yours and it will be added…you will be showing support of a very good cause: the conservation and […]
The first time I made a megasalad in 2001 with 363 different plants (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=206) I approached Guinness to claim a world record. They were not interested and […]
Hablitzia (the Caucasian Spinach) and Digitalis purpurea (Common Foxglove) are both shade tolerant perennials one an edible and the other an important medicinal, so not unlikely that they […]
There are 8 pages in my book devoted to this, one of my all time favourite perennial vegetables, Hablitzia tamnoides. I prefer just to call it Hablitzia or […]
Most of the snow disappeared in the garden after rain and high temperatures over the last 24 hours…revealing this old man’s beard in seed. I’ve grown Clematis vitalba […]
I tonight sowed various perennial edibles I found and collected seed of in the woods near Woodstock, Vermont while visiting a friend and my US distributors Chelsea Green […]
A Norwegian article from Trondheim’s street magazine Sorgenfri in 2013 about foraging locally here in Malvik for Ostrich Fern, a plant which few people realise is edible and […]
An interview in connection with my book and forthcoming talk was published in our local newspaper on 13th December 2014. Here it is, in Norwegian of course… [gview […]
The distributor who has worked to arrange interviews this week while I’m in the UK didn’t mention I’m a local Hampshire lad. Nevertheless BBC Radio Solent in Southampton and Hilliers […]
Sunday 24th August 2003, I earned my title Extreme Salad Man :) when I made a salad comprising 538 varieties of edible plant. I’m still looking for the […]
The first time I gave my talk “Around the world in 80 plants” was 8 (eight) years ago on 6th November 2006 for the local group of the […]
Around The World in 80 Plants : An Edible Perennial Vegetable Adventure For Temperate Climates, by Stephen Barstow What has underground gardening in Tokyo, the origin of garlic […]
Somebody was asking if I still had the ingredients list for my record salad from 2003 with 537 varieties – it used to be on the net but […]
An article in Trondheim’s newspaper in June 2014 about edible Trondheim including one of my diversity salads… Artikkel fra Ukeadressa i juni om spiselig Trøndelag!! [gview file=”http://www.edimentals.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Adressa_Spiselige.pdf”] ….and […]